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#39 — Free Will Revisited

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Universe Is Holding the Strings

'If you had just one mouthful more of lunch, it's something very different,' he says. 'I don't find that a upsetting at all, because that's one of those situations', the philosopher adds. The idea that when you do make the decision, had the few atoms been slightly differnt, you would have made the other decision is not what most people feel themselves to be - but they are still free-willing.

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